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by dmoy 3y ago
In this case it's even what, 7000 or 8500lbs car? Which is even crazier when you consider road wear scales on the 3rd or 4th power of weight. (Edit: 4th power, damn) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_la
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by dmoy 3y ago
Yea this is it Reading books
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by dmoy 3y ago
I could believe that. I knew way more about planes, aircraft carriers, etc when I was a kid than I do now (I forgot most of it, and I'm also virtually certain I didn't know this specific fact anyway). I also used to have like a d
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by dmoy 3y ago
> Curious how stat considers if gun is stored on person instead of safe. No idea, I'd guess it doesn't get included in the numerator or denominator > Also the reason why people end up with guns in cars is often because of du
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by dmoy 3y ago
> Source 22% in a safe https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/per... > The 2016 survey found that 46 percent of gun owners stored all household guns locked, of whom 22 percent sto
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by dmoy 3y ago
And yet, over 250k guns are stolen every year (in the US), mostly from houses and cars. There's a variety of things going on here: 1. The bar for "gun worth stealing" is often "any gun". Just in the same way that t
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by dmoy 3y ago
Advertising you have guns is a good way to get your house/car/etc broken in to for the explicit purpose of stealing guns.
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by dmoy 3y ago
Right, to be clear: If the initial research is funded by government grants or at Uni or whatever, the overwhelming majority of the cost is still in Phase 2 and 3 trials. This is why certain drugs don't get developed anymore - if it&#x2
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by dmoy 3y ago
"Cartels of unions" or whatever are legal in some jurisdictions. See e.g. solidarity action / sympathy strikes. Depending on the country, that varies from "totally illegal" to "well of course you're gonna
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by dmoy 3y ago
It's not that EE *needs" to fall back on software for stable employment, it's that software pays more, and ridiculously more at big tech companies. I have both EE and CS degrees, but I make literally more than double in CS-ty
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by dmoy 3y ago
> I'm curious what changed around 2015-2016 that led to the current interview process. In the before times the interview was more of a technical conversation, sure they had some gotcha questions, but nothing too brutal. If you had r
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by dmoy 3y ago
Here in Seattle the underground part of the city is open for tours (parts of it anyways). They built the current downtown on top of the old one, so it's pretty surreal down there. Not even tunnels in this case, just like a whole-ass o
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by dmoy 3y ago
> My point was more that the data presented in the article aren't very useful on their own. Yea this is a constant issue in almost all journalism. Numbers are provided mostly without context. E g. "$100k of drugs seized in bu
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by dmoy 3y ago
> continent was free of war for a long time Was it though? Within the last 30 years you've got Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Russia/Georgia, and the Russia/Chechnya civil stuff. I guess no super lengthy wars in 20 years, sure.
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by dmoy 3y ago
> because they can't UNREP top off their VLSs Wait, for real? That seems crazy to me. Lot of those ships minus the vls are pretty useless. I guess they rely on bases all over
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by dmoy 3y ago
It is interest free if the IRS pays you within N days of you filing. If they're slower, then they pay interest. Where N is some value between like .... 30 and 90? I forget.
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by dmoy 3y ago
> In any case, I'll reconsider this, and may force all mines to be flagged in order to win, that might be safer. That would make it less fun though, because an interesting variant is when you play without using flags.
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by dmoy 3y ago
Yea somewhere, I forget exactly I played a bunch of minesweeper earlier and looked at the records, and still don't get how it's possible lol
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by dmoy 3y ago
Sub 0.5 second is world record for normal beginner minesweeper. So, could be, yea.
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by dmoy 3y ago
Maybe there's some negative context I'm missing about the phrase zerg rush. I like zerg rushes, they're difficult to execute in high level competition, and there's comparatively fewer dominant zerg players (compared the
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by dmoy 3y ago
Cheap as in material cost, not cheap as in subpar tactics. No doubt the Marine dude in charge of that was very good at strategy, but by definition he had less resources for the exercise do anything he did would have to be cheaply thrown to
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by dmoy 3y ago
The US military has known this for a long time, it just chooses to bury its head in the sand and ignore it. See e.g. MC02 where they lost to opfor with what was literally like a cheaply thrown together zerg rush, and then just reset the sce
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by dmoy 3y ago
Well, five moneys at least. They might figure out and fire you before you get to six moneys (but maybe they won't, who knows).
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by dmoy 3y ago
Yes you're correct, Private Equity.
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by dmoy 3y ago
For sure, yea, but it'll likely be way more expensive than just hauling it off the ground.
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by dmoy 3y ago
Huh I figured I didn't have an Erdos number because I only incidentally became a second author on like one or two papers during my time in an Uni lab. I do remember a conversation with one of the professors in my lab who wanted me to t
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by dmoy 3y ago
> Are there some standard ways I've missed, or do folks rely on proprietary extensions or extra services for this? As a hack, you can always have your library run its own retry by doing an atomic ack-and-resend-to-the-future (though
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by dmoy 3y ago
GP is talking about an imaginary hypothetical situation in which NYC would be dutch held until the 1990s, not the real-world timeline
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by dmoy 3y ago
> I'm very surprised since GS is generally known (IIRC) as shrewd deal makers. The allure of allying with Apple (and seeming innovative?) was just too strong, I guess -- they did a deal that was bad for them. Some of it may just be
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by dmoy 3y ago
Becoming a bank brings a whole stack of regulations that most companies would rather avoid like the plague. It's not glass-stegall level of forced separation anymore, but it's still more onerous than is probably worth it for Apple

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